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One thing I love about SVGs for websites is their stability across many contexts, browsers, etc. Everything is pinpoint, coordinate based, nothing moves around unexpectedly. You define it once, it's done.

Will give it a shot but I feel like fine-tuning will be more reliable, any way to do that?

Anyone know if possible to fine-tune for cloning my voice?

Disagree. It's really not complicated at all to me. Not sure why people make a big fuss over this. I don't want an AI automating which AI it chooses for me. I already know through lots of testing intuitively which one I want.

If they abstract all this away into one interface I won't know which model I'm getting. I prefer reliability.

I hope someone can create an open source replica of this work. I see so much potential for features you can come up with.

For example the rhyming example brings to mind a feature where you give the model starting input and ending input and ask it to fill in.

Can not only imagine it being useful in that sense, but for ways at retroactively arriving at some answer, or solution or something. Like the causal chain that leads to a specific answer.

Another idea is to show all possible word variations, and then the middle is rewritten based on the chosen word.

Don't you think this 'logic' is kind of a numb way to look at reality? Not caring about the actual human doing the job... when you've got millions in your pocket? Standard of living in third world countries tends to be worse. Look at every global human wellbeing index in existence and you'll see they're all pretty much the same map rhymed over and over. People suffer on one side so that people can live well on the other side.

It's not like "Oh their quality of life is exactly the same as in the US it's just cheaper! So it's totally fine for us to pay them peanuts! Right? Peanuts buy you a house there... I mean the house has no plumbing but it's a house!" No, their quality of life is absolute crap compared to first world countries (as someone from a third world country). And paying them like shit will only prolong their suffering.

The least the company could do is pay them fairly which means they can travel or live a better quality life.

Eh... still kinda fucked up in my opinion. Should be treated equally.

Or if we could even provide samples of what an example speaker sounds like in general so that it would always classify them the way we want.

Off-topic but DALL-E has turned the web into slop-city. What a mess. Everything looks the same, cheap and ugly and stupid.

Jeff you know what would be magical? Not just vanilla diarization "Speaker 1" and "2" but if the model can know from the conversation this speaker was referred to as "Jeff Harris" or "Jeff" so it uses that instead.

Def prefer the pricing but so far on 4o, no timestamps or diarization sadly

Yeah the eagerness to please thing feels like it carried over from the LLMs or something cause they're like that too.

Yep. I've often said RLHF'd LLMs seem to be better at recognition memory than recall memory.

GPT-4o will never offhand, unprompted and 'unprimed', suggest a rare but relevant book like Shinichi Nakazawa's "A Holistic Lemma of Science" but a base model Mixtral 8x22B or Llama 405B will. (That's how I found it).

It seems most of the RLHF'd models seem biased towards popularity over relevance when it comes to recall. They know about rare people like Tyler Volk... but they will never suggest them unless you prime them really heavily for them.

Your point on recommendations from humans I couldn't agree more with. Humans are the OG and undefeated recommendation system in my opinion.

Does anyone know if there's an API where I could plug in ISBN and get all the libraries in the world that have that book?

I know Worldcat has something like this when you search for a book, but the API, I assume is only for library institutions and I'm not a library nor an institution.

I guess since they're not ahead anymore they decide to go back to open source.

The "illustrated"... He needs to read up on Tufte or Bret Victor or something, these are just diagrams with text inside of boxes.

I wish someone would do something like this but without the preamble like "t2x ask 'bla bla'"

All I want to do is talk to my computer, like:

"Sort these files" or whatever. Straight away. No noise.

And it should have a history of what was done already, so it knows what I'm talking about.

If people are concerned about safety, it could just be a 'mode' or an app that isn't a terminal but looks like a terminal.

Good. Finally they’ll realize the meaninglessness of their work and how they’ve been exploited in the most insidious way. To the point of forgetting to answer the question of what it is they most want to do in life.

The brain does saturate eventually and gets bored. Then the crisis of meaning. Then something meaningful emerges.

We’re all gonna die. Let’s just enjoy life to the fullest.

It may be impossible in this world to expect a form of donation, but it is certainly not impossible to expect forms of investment.

One idea I had is everyone is paid a thriving wage, and in exchange, if they in the future develop their passion into something that can make a profit, they pay back 20% of their profits they make up to some capped amount.

This allows for extreme generality. It truly frees people to pursue whatever they fancy every day until they catch lightning in a bottle.

There would be 0 obligation as to what to do, and when to pay back the money. But of course would have to be only open to honest people, so that neither side is exploiting the other.

Both sides need a sense of gratitude, and wanting to give back. A philanthropic 'flair' "If it doesn't work out, it's okay", and a gratitude and wanting to give back someday on the side of the receiver, as they continue working on probably the most resilient thing they could ever work on (the safest investment), their lifelong passion.

Or liberating... as Douglas Rushkoff puts it.

If and only if something like high-paying UBI comes along, and people are freed to pursue their passions and as a consequence, benefit the world much more intensely.

Pro tip:

    html {
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 
    }

For a better reading experience.

If you're on Arc and have Boosts, I also recommend a darker background.

Really interesting points. Also, I find most or even any absolute determinations of what makes 'good' writing less a signal of 'good writing', but more so a 'style' of writing that you can choose to take elements from or not. Just like any piece of writing. There is an implied "to me" with all of these things... to me at least.

Can also do both (kinda). Hourly and specify budget range. "I think it can get done with this many hours", then charge 30% up front of budget estimate and the rest of the hours on completion.

Same... It's just not ergonomic. I much preferred the simplicity as someone who loves Python for that same reason. I love code that looks like this:

  import whisper

  model = whisper.load_model("turbo")

  result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")

  print(result["text"])

Or this (although this is slightly 'dirtier'):

  import eng_to_ipa as ipa
  def get_homophones(word):

      words_that_sound_the_same = []
      the_way_this_word_looks = word
      the_way_this_word_sounds = ipa.convert(word)
      words_that_contain_that_sound = 
  ipa.contains(the_way_this_word_sounds)
      for every_word in words_that_contain_that_sound:
          the_way_that_word_looks = every_word[0]
          the_way_that_word_sounds = every_word[1]
          
          if the_way_this_word_sounds == the_way_that_word_sounds:
              if the_way_that_word_looks != the_way_this_word_looks:
                  words_that_sound_the_same.append(every_word)

      return words_that_sound_the_same
                   
  get_homophones('their') #[['there', 'ðɛr'], ["they're", 'ðɛr']]

Or Raymond Hettinger style.

Chef's kiss. I hate code that overcomplicates.

Blah blah 'making stuff explicit'... I don't think that it's impossible to make things explicit while also making it ergonomic, and humane to use.

Anyway, programming as a whole is an old paradigm, sigh, might as well make the new thing myself.

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Still admirable though...

Hm I wonder if it's possible to animate those svg favicons...

This is perhaps the best counterargument I've heard, and I will say, it still doesn't make it not a tyranny. Let's call it then the tyranny of nature/the universe. The promise of technological progress will eventually help us out of it I believe.

Marche ou crève (work or die)

(It is hilarious to me that Dogen is being downvoted)

> Does that mean human intelligence is cheapened when you talk out a problem to yourself?

In a sense, maybe yeah. Of course if one were to really be absolute about that statement it would be absurd, it would greatly overfit the reality.

But it is interesting to assume this statement as true. Oftentimes when we think of ideas "off the top of our heads" they are not as profound as ideas that "come to us" in the shower. The subconscious may be doing 'more' 'computation' in a sense. Lakoff said the subconscious was 98% of the brain, and that the conscious mind is the tip of the iceberg of thought.